Both Nerina Pallot’s and Imogen Heap’s concerts were due to take place last October, but were both postponed until this week; this made for a busy week of photography, but great for my listening entertainment!

Nerina is starting her latest tour, promoting her recent album “Fires”, which contains the excellent singles “Everybody’s Gone to War” and “Sophia”, and my other favourite track “All Good People”. While she may still be unsure about how to entertain the crowd between songs, her piano- and guitar-playing, and singing, were spot on, and definitely pleased. Memorable moments from the evening include the moving finale, “Sophia”, and Nerina’s take on Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer”.

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As I wasn’t able to get photographs of the whole show last Monday evening (see previous post), I went to the last performance of the week, and took photographs from the lighting box, accompanied by the show’s very talented lighting designer, Eddy Langley. Having spent well over an hour just downloading the photos, rotating them, sorting them into each of the 25 dances, and discarding any unusable photos, I finally got a chance to look at the photos. As usual, the choreography and lighting produced some wonderful imagery, but one of the photos took my breath away (well, I actually said “wow”). In the piece “Fire from Water”, the dancers wore loose strips of orange and yellow ribbon “bringing to life the beauty of flames dancing playfully in the breeze” (seen clearly in the photo I took on Monday). This time, I took some long-exposure photos, and the one shown below looks like real fire. I wonder if the choreographer, Vaughan-Alicia Watts, had this image in her mind. Simply stunning.

UPDATED 31/01/2007: Photos of all dances are now on CantabPhotos.

“Prelude”

“Fire from Water”

“Samsui Water Women”

“Homelands”

“Bittersweet”

“Bittersweet”

“Monkey”

“Just Happen”

“Five Breaths”

“Swan Song”

“Sandstorm”

I woke up this morning to find snow lining the tree outside my window. With great glee, I grabbed my camera and headed in to work, taking a long scenic detour through St. John’s college backs. The last time I remember snow settling in Cambridge, and when I got photos, was in March 2005 (see the album on Cantabphotos). I tend to gravitate towards St. John’s, my alma mater, whenever there are interesting lighting/meteorological conditions, though I’m quickly running out of novel photos to take there!

Compare this to the same view taken a mere 10 days ago